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Presents a framework and state-of-the-art references on F/OSS projects, reporting case studies of projects covering a range of F/OSS applications and domains. This book points out trends in the evolution of software practices and solutions to the challenges posed by ubiquitous free and open source software.

The tremendous growth of the Internet is successfully making a variety of e-services a part of citizens' everyday life. This book provides an overview of e-service trust issues, including: definitions, constructs, and relationships with other research topics such as security, privacy, reputation, and risk.

Modern day supply chain management (SCM) continues to influence the economic and political landscape while being shaped by the wide array of forces known collectively as globalization. Instead of the traditional mode of firms competing against firms, there now are supply chains competing against supply chains. What is in good currency today refers to a firms ability to identify the right suppliers to execute a given activity in the value chain, to organize such activities, and to manage its relationship with these suppliers.E-Business Process Management: Technologies and Solutions explores the issues of supply chain management in a new perspective. It provides examples of integrated framework for global SCM, novel ways of improving flexibility, responsiveness, and competitiveness via strategic IT alliances among channel members in a supply chain network, and techniques that might facilitate improved strategic decision making in a SCM environment. E-Business Process Management: Technologies and Solutions introduces a game-theoretic approach to supply chain risk management, real-life case studies, and analyzes the effects of increased transparency in supply chain and business networks.

To develop and sustain competitive advantage in the marketplace, organizations depend critically on competence and resources, knowledge and information exchanged within and across partner organizations. This book presents research related to the application of semantic Web technologies, including semantic service-oriented architecture, and others.

Includes evolution, planning, development, implementation, and practical implications of diversified development practices around the world, focusing on socio-economic empowerment and regional developments through ICTs.

Presents different concepts regarding the reliability, availability, manageability, performance, scalability, and secured-ability of applications, particularly the ones that run over the Web. This work examines the causes of failure in a Web-based information system development project.

Presents the emerging service computing, or service-enabled computing, technologies used in integrating enterprise-wide and cross-enterprise applications. This book covers topics that range from concept development, system design, modeling, and development technologies, to the final deployment.

Presents a collection of contributions in the areas of organization, knowledge, and technology management in the context of virtual enterprises. This book contains information on four dimensions: semantic, managerial, technological, and social.

Presents innovative methods of promoting music and products for distance teaching and commercial and non-commercial purposes for both sighted and print-impaired consumers.

Describes the underlying concepts of Bayesian Networks with the help of diverse applications, and theories that prove Bayesian networks valid. This book provides examples of how Bayesian networks are powerful machine learning tools critical in solving real-life problems.

Audio and speech processing have achieved important status in development over the years, improving the standard of living of many people. This title provides a comprehensive approach of signal processing tools regarding the enhancement, recognition, and protection of speech and audio signals.

Presents the concept of creativity using virtual teams, demonstrating a specific focus and application for virtual teams. This work offers tools, processes, and frameworks to advance the overall concept that leveraging ideas from different locations in an organization is based on creativity.

Examines the development and role of small business clusters from a variety of disciplines - economics, marketing, management, and information systems. This book brings together perspectives on small business clusters from a range of disciplines and countries, and highlights the commonalities in the literature.

In the last years, knowledge and learning management have made a significant impact on the IT research community. This book gives an orientation to the critical issues of the open source paradigm such as open source tools, applications, social networks, and knowledge sharing in open source communities.

Addresses challenges in managing information resources in dynamic social environments across cultures, including research on key factors for social acceptance of information technology. This work explores different paradigms under which information resources will generate original meanings for a contemporary generator of users.

Covers real-world engineering problems, and explores the implementation of neural networks for the representation of structural responses in earthquake engineering. This book assesses the efficiency of seismic design procedures and describes the findings in intelligent optimal control systems and their applications in structural engineering.

As the Internet has become more pervasive, information disseminated through the Web grows in an exponential rate, creating a call for more universal design. This book covers various aspects of universal Web design from disabilities to cultural differences, including various aspects of Web design: prototyping, analysis, and evaluation.

Due to increasing importance of intangible assets of a company, firms are now concerned with how best to manage and measure knowledge and other intangibles. This work provides a synopsis on the history, origin, taxonomies, ontologies, measurement models, and dynamics of intellectual capital.

Compiles information and experiences from CIO's from all over the world. As senior management address the importance of information technology to the functioning of an organization the formally recognized role performed by a CIO emerges, which is contingent upon many factors.

Designing for Networked Communications: Strategies and Development explains how to plan, use, and understand the products and the dynamic social processes and tasks some of the most vital innovations in the knowledge society depend upon social as well as technological. Focusing on various forms of design, implementation and integration of computer mediated communication, this book bridges the academic fields of computer science and communication studies.Designing for Networked Communications: Strategies and Development uses an interdisciplinary approach, and presents results from recent and important research in a variety of forms for networked communications. A constructive and critical view of the interplay between the new electronic and the more conventional modes of communication are utilized, while studies of organizational work practices demonstrate that the use of new technologies and media is best understood and integrated into work practices. In this process of merging, both are remodelled and rearranged while being adapted to the practices and activities for which they were designed.

Provides a review of inter-organizational aspects in business integration, including: managerial and organizational integration, social integration, and technology integration, along with the resources to accomplish this competitive advantage.

Mass customization is a business strategy that aims at satisfying an individual customer's needs with near mass production efficiency. This work provides the research on IT systems for mass customization. It describes the solutions, tools, and concepts needed for successful realization of these systems

The growth of data warehouses and communication and information technologies has increased the need for high information quality management in organizations. This book provides solutions to information quality problems. It is suitable for professionals and researchers working in the field of information and knowledge management.

Software quality is vitally important to the success of a business. Software review is one of the methods used to detect defects. This book provides an understanding of the critical factors affecting software review performance, and gives practical guidelines for software reviews.

Agile/virtual enterprise (A/VE) is seen as an advanced organizational paradigm, and is expected to serve as a vehicle towards a seamless perfect alignment of the enterprise within the market. This book addresses A/VE as a highly dynamic, reconfigurable agile network of independent enterprises sharing all resources.

Examines how the use of open source software (OSS) affects practices in society, business, government, education, and law. This work provides a balance of theoretical perspectives, experiences, and cases in relation to these areas.

Discusses the extraordinary importance of Internet technologies, with a particular focus on the Web.

A reference source of information on the trends and breakthroughs in computer applications applied to healthcare and biomedicine. This work explores innovative technologies in health information systems, medicine, health services, and other areas in biomedicine.